On July 14th, 2019, our president tweeted to American citizens, “Go back home.”
I’m Korean American. I came to America with my parents as a seven-year-old and I’m familiar with those taunts. They’ve been hurled at me multiple times in various forms. I want to share two of them.
The first one happened when I was middle school. Our family just bought a house in Little Neck, New York. It was our first house and we were very proud. Owning a house was the most powerful symbol of the American dream. Undergirding the symbolism was the fact that we had recently become legal residents, so…